From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Transferring focus to Emacs
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:10:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r56wbapm.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20110614094543.5928a5a6@gauss
Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> writes:
> I want a separate program to give the focus to Emacs, and put the
> cursor in a particular (existing) buffer.
Try wmctrl:
wmctrl -xa emacs
emacsclient do_what_you_have _to_do
wmctrl -xa go_back_to_initial_window (optional e.g firefox)
--
A+ Thierry
Get my Gnupg key:
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-14 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-14 16:45 Transferring focus to Emacs Joe Riel
2011-06-14 17:10 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2011-06-14 19:25 ` Joe Riel
2011-06-15 6:14 ` Joe Riel
2011-06-15 8:34 ` Peter Dyballa
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